On a recent trip to Home Depot, I ran across these great Rubbermaid All Access™ Organizers. Perfect for craft storage, or any other type of organization. I immediately thought about my perpetually messy craft room, and bought two of these cool storage bins immediately!

The old craft room is constantly in a state of confusion. You see, I easily have at least five projects going on at the same time. If I didn’t have a day job that requires me to go to work 8 hours a day, I would probably move into that room permanently. The family would have to send a search crew in every now and then just to be sure I was wasn’t buried under some avalanche of crafty goodness.

I’ve cleaned the room before, as documented in this post; but it does tend to work it’s way back to unorganized. Take for instance, this current method for storing yarn. Granted it is in a box and not all over the bottom of my closet any more. But the main issue with this type of storage is I cannot see what I have in an easy glance.

I generally organize by stacking boxes. It makes life a little neater, but there are inherent problems with this type of storage. First, even by marking the bins with a sharpie, I am not always entirely sure what is inside them. Sure it says “craft kits”, but really? How do I remember what is in there? Second, in order to get to any of these boxes and take a look inside, I have to unstack and re-stack them.

Here is a great solution for not only organizing supplies, but being able to see what you have and being able to get to it without stacking and un-stacking! Rubbermaid All Access™ Organizers can be found at your local Home Depot in several sizes and colors at a great price!

Simply open the clear door in the front and you have full access to everything inside. Or leave the door closed and open the lid on the top! I love the fact that you can see everything inside and do not have to unstack boxes to get to it!

See how cool all my yarn looks in this awesome storage bin? Makes me want to go grab some knitting needles as I speak

I decided to put a ton of my huge collection of acrylic paints in the other bin.

Just look in the window and you can totally see what you have and open the door if you need it!

I can already tell that these Rubbermaid All Access™ Organizers are going to be my new “go-to” item for my craft room. What a simple way to store all my goodies!

Hello, Susan that is fantastic idea for managing stuff. I too used these storage boxes for putting my stuff and really now I recognized that these are the perfect solution for organizing. But Susan thanks to you for sharing your thoughts with us. I am very glad to read your post and would also waiting to read your new posts in future.

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